- Width versus panning.…So in a nutshell, width is having your signal…sent to what we call a side channel,…which is a collective sum of the parts…of the left and right sides that don't interfere,…and not the mid channel,…so "mid channel."…And basically, the mid is your collective…sum of parts of the left and right sides…that are interfering.…Before we jump in,…panning, I think you probably already know,…is just, you're dealing with left and right.…So let's jump right in…and I'm gonna show you real quick what I mean by that.…So I'm just gonna solo the instrument group…here that I've got,…and let's check to make sure,…just gonna play the chorus section of our track.…

Yup.…And what I want to do is basically…in real time show you how I'm checking my mix…while I'm working on it.…So generally I go to my master channel…and right at the very end here, smack dab…I have this little utility.…And as you can see I've got the width set to zero…but I have it bypassed.…And so what that does is…the minute I engage that,…everything gets put to Mono by default,…

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6/26/2015

While genre does not affect many mixing techniques, EDM (electronic dance music) has unique challenges. Artists want their songs to sound loud, wide, and heavy, without suppressing their unique texture or competing with the underlying rhythm. In this course, Colin Fisher teaches advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment. He'll touch on loudness and dynamics, headroom and gain, and processing with compression, limiting, and clipping, as well as show how to manipulate stereo and frequency placement like the pros do. The end result is a fat, wide, and full sound that will help your tracks break through.